. Town and city. CuLEX EggsMagnified Two EggsGreatly magnified In 1905, however, the epidemic in New Orleans grad-ually faded out after September. The truth is thatintelligent people knew how Havana had saved herself,and they proposed to follow her example. Mosquitoes. From Pupa to Mosquito (Anopheles)Three times as large as life were therefore slain by the million, and larvae by thebillion and the trillion. Everybody was in preached sermons on the subject; newspaperstold the people what to do and begged them to do it;handbills and posters were put up here, there, and 238 TOW
. Town and city. CuLEX EggsMagnified Two EggsGreatly magnified In 1905, however, the epidemic in New Orleans grad-ually faded out after September. The truth is thatintelligent people knew how Havana had saved herself,and they proposed to follow her example. Mosquitoes. From Pupa to Mosquito (Anopheles)Three times as large as life were therefore slain by the million, and larvae by thebillion and the trillion. Everybody was in preached sermons on the subject; newspaperstold the people what to do and begged them to do it;handbills and posters were put up here, there, and 238 TOWN AND CITY - everywhere, urging all good citizens to carry on a valiantwar; and at last there was such enthusiasm that richmen and poor men, young men and old men, women andchildren, all joined hands. They worked Sundays as well as week days, for theyknew that the choice lay between killing stegomyia orbeing killed by them. Sulphur was used by the ton and kerosene oil by thetanicful and the car load. Citizens work well in such acause when they are intelligent, and even the childrenof the city now knew many of the following facts aboutstegomyia: 1. Mosquitoes lay two or three hundredeggs at a time in any spot, large or small,that holds water. A wide-spreading ma
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